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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for plucky
plucky • adjective   synonyms : courageous, brave, valiant, valorous, heroic, intrepid, fearless, mettlesome, gritty, determined, bold, daring, spirited, audacious; inf.
A strong and plucky dog, the Scottie is squat and bewhiskered, with alert-looking eyes and a distinctive rolling gait.
A plucky Black woman, Bunnatine Greenhouse, chief contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers, is the center of controversy after she complained that Halliburton Company was unfairly awarded $2 billion in contracts at the Pentagon.(Confidential)(Brief Article)
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 Plucky Duck - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Plucky Duck is the Tiny Toons equivalent of Daffy Duck — Tiny Toons being a cartoon show, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which purports to extend the merchandisability of the old Warner Bros. cartoon stars by creating a whole new generation of them.
Plucky's voice was usually provided by Joe Alaskey, who has done most of the old Warner characters at one time or another since Mel Blanc died, as well as several on Duckman, a couple for Harvey Productions, and Grandpa Lou on Rugrats.
Plucky, who is about 14 years old, is a bit pushier about getting his career going than most of his contemporaries.
www.toonopedia.com /plucky.htm   (466 words)

  
 Plucky Duck - Definition, explanation
From the Warner Bros television animated series; Tiny Toon Adventures, Plucky Duck is a green mallard duck "with an ego the size of Cleveland".
Plucky's a glutton for punishment and loves the limelight--even throwing fits when he isn't in the show enough.
Plucky oftens tries to steal the spotlight from Babs and Buster Bunny, yet the 3 remain good friends through it all.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pl/plucky_duck.php   (279 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Duck survives two days in fridge
A hunter shot the duck, wounding it in the wing and leg.
The plucky duck was taken first to a local animal hospital, and then to an animal sanctuary for more specialised treatment.
A veterinarian at the sanctuary said he thinks the duck will live, but will probably never be well enough to be released into the wild.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/6283677.stm   (266 words)

  
 PLUCKY DUCK : Encyclopedia Entry
Plucky Duck is a fictional anthropomorphic green duck who appeared in the 1990s animated series Tiny Toon Adventures.
Plucky, a teenager, was portrayed on the series as a greedy, egotistical, and easily excited young duck, who'd often engage in various schemes with the goal of either personal glory or satisfying some personal whim.
Plucky's best friend was Hamton J. Pig, a mild-mannered pig and Plucky's opposite, whom Plucky often takes advantage of; his romantic interest was Shirley the Loon, a young psychic female duck.
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Plucky_Duck   (547 words)

  
 TTA Character Sheets -- Cs0809 -- Plucky Duck
PLUCKY DUCK Plucky Duck is a hyper-active and egocentric young duck.
Plucky imagines himself to be brilliantly adept at everything, yet he constantly overestimates his own abilities and falls flat on his bill.
Plucky is a fast talker, but the only character he can con is the most gullible character in Acme Acres, Hamton.
www.angel-hare.com /acorn/tta/cs/cs0809.html   (437 words)

  
 Digital Journal - Plucky Duck survives another brush with death
The Duck that was shot earlier and survived in the refrigerator for two days, endured another brush of death during the surgery.
The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during surgery to repair gunshot damage to one wing, said Noni Beck of the Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.
This duck seems to have a number of lives, but I am glad everyone is chipping in to save its life.
www.digitaljournal.com /article/101326/Plucky_Duck_survives_another_brush_with_death   (361 words)

  
 Tiny Toon Image Gallery Plus - Plucky Duck Page.
Character: Plucky has been described as "That silly green duck with an ego the size of Cleveland" and this is spot on.
Plucky was enrolled in "The Looney Begining" as Buster and Babs' sidekick, and ever since he has been intent on stealing centre stage.
Plucky's home is continually changing, in several episodes he is seen to be living in a reed house in the middle of the acme swamp.
www.fortunecity.com /westwood/wax/329/plucky_duck_index.html   (392 words)

  
 Who is Plucky?
Plucky Duck is a hyper-active and egocentric young duck.
Plucky imagines himself to be brilliantly adept at everything, yet he constantly overestimates his own abilities and falls flat on his bill.
Plucky is a fast talker, but the only character he can con is the most gullible character in Acme Acres, Hamton.
www.plucky.com /whois.html   (402 words)

  
 The Plucky Duck Show TV Show - The Plucky Duck Show Television Show - TV.com
The Plucky Duck Show is the show Tiny Toon Adventures spun off of.
Plucky anxiously awaits the bell, but the clock is not liking him.
Duck in the Dark - Plucky sleeps over at Buster's house, but stays up late watching monster movies, causing him to have nightmares.
www.tv.com /the-plucky-duck-show/show/13352/summary.html   (457 words)

  
 IGN: Tiny Toon Adventures: Plucky's Big Adventure Review
Plucky, being the slacker that he is, forgot to do his Looniversity homework.
The plotline doesn't mention whether or not Plucky would unravel the space/time continuum if he handed his homework to himself, but Doc Brown's theory is a little too complicated for this game.
The game involves collecting 5 pieces that Plucky needs to finish his time machine, which are all located inside of the Looniversity.
psx.ign.com /articles/371/371522p1.html   (1007 words)

  
 Refrigerator duck plays Lazarus again - Animal Peculiarity - MSNBC.com
The ring-neck duck has been shot by a hunter, rescued from two days in a refrigerator by his wife and — in its latest brush with death — resuscitated on a veterinarian's operating table.
The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during an operation to repair gunshot damage to her wing, said Noni Beck of Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.
The duck had been in the fridge for two days since it was shot and mistaken for dead on Jan. 15.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/16866547   (394 words)

  
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He rooks Plucky, Hamton and Babs into the adventure by telling them they're going to the Emmy Awards (which Plucky continues to believe for the entire story).
The Plucky of tomorrow arrives in the time machine, and current Plucky rips it off, picking up Babs and Buster to make a tour of the past, which eventually strands the bunnies in prehistoric Acme Acres while Plucky brings a dinosaur-sized Dizzy Devil to modern Acme Acres...
Plucky, fresh from his recurrent stint as BatDuck, takes off for Tim Burton's soundstage to beg and plead for the role.
www.textfiles.com /media/EPISODES/epi_tton.txt   (7687 words)

  
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Plucky Duck and Shirley the Loon were working late in the film vaults.
Plucky kicked at the ground as they boarded the two remote controlled jeeps that would take them to see the different exhibits.
Donald Duck was trying to make good his escape in one of the Jurassick Toon Park jeeps when the jeep slid off the road and landed in a PRODIGY(R) interactive personal service 06/27/93 3:27 AM mud puddle which had hopelessly trapped him.
www.ttaworld.net /ttafanficmirror/stories/jd.txt   (6936 words)

  
 The Bush League Factor
The hockey stick is still too small if it's able to fit in a duck's mouth like that, and the shaft is still at a 90° angle.
Now that the duck is no longer in the center of the circle, I think something is needed at the lower left for balance, and the stick works as well as anything else.
I know that I say "the logo could have been worse" too often in these reviews, but this time there's no denying it, because the logo has been worse in the past: fifty-seven points worse, to be precise.
www.bushleaguefactor.com /teams/qcy.asp   (631 words)

  
 Plucky Duck
Plucky Duck always wanted to be the big duck in Acme Acres, he had no idea that it would be taken so literaly though.
Tired of being upstaged by all of the other Tiny Toon characters, he demanded to the kids at home taht he is made into the biggest duck.
Suddenly without warning the duck changes into a monsterously huge monster duck and starts to wreck havoc.
members.aol.com /MAAFaOGBiC/Plucky.html   (155 words)

  
 Plucky duck survives another brush with death - CNN.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter's refrigerator -- and now she's had a close brush with death on a veterinarian's operating table.
Perky entered the headlines last week after a hunter's wife opened her refrigerator door and the should've-been-dead duck lifted its head and looked at her.
A duck survives two days in a refrigerator.
www.cnn.com /2007/US/01/28/tough.duck.ap/index.html   (277 words)

  
 Duck Dodgers
There were several great cartoons released in 1953: “Duck Amok” – Chuck Jones playful destruction of the fourth wall, “Cat-tails for Two” – Robert McKimson’s nod to Of Mice and Men and the introduction of Speedy Gonzales, and “Duck, Rabbit, Duck” – Jones’ third hilarious ménage-a-trois with Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer.
The first sequel “Duck Dodgers and the Return to the 24½ Century” was in made 1980, to coincide with the release of The Empire Strikes Back.
Duck Dodgers does not appear at all in this segment, nonetheless it is one of the funniest.
www.scifidimensions.com /Oct03/duckdodgers.htm   (961 words)

  
 Plucky duck survives another brush with death - CNN.com » Netscape.com
Plucky duck survives another brush with death - CNN.com » Netscape.com
Plucky duck survives another brush with death - CNN.com
Do No Evil – Hunter's wife finds live duck in fridge...poor thing has more problems at the Vet's.
donoevil.netscape.com /story/2007/01/28/plucky-duck-survives-another-brush-with-death-cnncom   (218 words)

  
 Quackers: Cartoon Ducks - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was a superhero duck at first, but later the character turned to more dark humor.
Disney sued "Howard the Duck" for being to much like "Donald Duck", causing "Howard" to start dressing different to change the character's appearance.
This duck never caught on with the cartoon crowd and only 15 cartoons were ever made.
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Quackers-Cartoon-Ducks-85468.html   (759 words)

  
 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
The basic premise was, the old-time Looney Tunes characters have retired from show business and are now teaching their skills to younger would-be entertainers.
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and a host of less stellar players are instructors at Acme Looniversity, where students as young as American middle-school kids (12-14) learn the fine arts of stretching, squashing, and getting hit on the head by falling anvils.
Plucky was the only one ever to get his own show, and that one consisted of reruns of old Tiny Toon Adventures.
www.toonopedia.com /tinytoon.htm   (555 words)

  
 spiralbound.net » Death Defying Duck
The hunter, believing the duck was dead, brought her home and put her in the fridge, no doubt looking forward to a nice meal of roast duck some time down the road.
It was not be be, however, because when the hunter’s wife opened the fridge two days later, she was shocked to see the duck’s head pop up and look at her.
She quickly rushed the plucky duck to a local animal hospital, and then on to the Goose Creek Animal Sanctuary where she was given more specialized treatment.
spiralbound.net /2007/01/29/death-defying-duck   (426 words)

  
 Daylife / Plucky duck survives another brush with death
Story Highlights • Plucky stops breathing on vet's operating table, but is revived • The duck earlier had been rescued after two days in a hunter's fridge • The one-pound female is likely to have further surgery The ring-neck duck survived being shot an - Read more...
The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter's refrigerator — and now she's had a close brush with death on a veterinarian's operating table.
The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during surgery to repair...
www.daylife.com /story/09HZfeS92m8Lf/1?lead_article=101000000016529742   (351 words)

  
 Bush League Factor
Plucky Duck was on top of the world.
I'm tempted to hit it with the Irrelevance penalty since an all-green duck clearly isn't a mallard, but I think I'll let that one go.
The duck is clearly dressed as a hockey player, with makes it automatically a quadruply-egregious Equip-Logo offense.
www.ipass.net /rhodent/blf/teams/qcy.html   (566 words)

  
 alt.tv.tiny-toon Frequently Asked Questions (read before posting)
THE PLUCKY DUCK SHOW was a spin-off show of TTA on Saturday mornings.
The show consisted of pulling Plucky shorts from TTA and rearranging them into their own half-hour episodes -- basically a recycling job, but with one notable exception: the episode "The Return of Batduck" first aired as TPDS's opening episode, and as such was the only unique episode produced for TPDS.
Plucky is the same age as Buster and Babs.
www.faqs.org /faqs/tiny-toon-faq   (4352 words)

  
 Gearlog: Duck Tech
Armed with an assortment of Sharpies, highlighters and colored pencils, I gazed at the empty canvas that is the Skooba DIY Skin laptop case.
Shockingly, I chose to decorate my bag with ducks (and hearts just to be extra super cute.) Since I'm a terrible scribbler, and for the sake of consistency, I traced an image I found somewhere on the Internets.
Besides ducks, you have a choice of a gorilla with wide eyes, two kinds of cats, a camel, and many many more.
www.gearlog.com /duck_tech   (1447 words)

  
 Plucky Duck Story
During the summer of 2003, Keith and Debbie's daughter Anna retrieved a duck egg from a rubbish bin in Buxton's Pavilion Gardens.
A few weeks later, to our utter astonishment, Abraham (pictured here in Anna's lap) pushed his beak through the shell and greeted the world with a loud "cheep!".
After gaining weight and a rather dashing set of downy feathers, the plucky duck joined the others at Norman Wood farm's duckpond.
gnfc.org.uk /farm_eggs/pluckyduck.html   (136 words)

  
 Duck comes back from dead, again - NewsAlerts.com
Duck comes back from dead, again — 2 articles, 3 images
A duck which survived being shot before spending two days in a refrigerator has now overcome major surgery - despite briefly dying on the operating table.
Plucky duck survives another brush with death — CNN
www.newsalerts.com /full/5c2/duck-comes-back-from-dead-again.html   (127 words)

  
 Stories Tagged 'duck' » Netscape.com
Science – A duck in Britain was born with a mutation that gave him four legs.
Sports – The Bombay Duck needs to turn on the heat or his place could be in jeopardy
Health and Fitness – A final round of tests on wild ducks in Montana confirmed the birds tested positive for the low-pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior said on Saturday.
www.netscape.com /tag/duck   (386 words)

  
 Tiny Toon Adventures @ Toonarific Cartoons
Meanwhile, Fifi Le Fume could be detected a mile away like Pepe Le Pew, Calamity Coyote was as born to lose as the hapless Wile E., and Furball Cat had a lisp that evoked memories of the perpetually hungry Sylvester.
Another character to appear on the show was little human girl Elmyra, an overly affectionate—not to mention overly aggressive—animal lover, who tended to squeeze the Toons a little too hard for their liking.
Repeats of the show were shown on Saturday mornings in 1992 under the name The Plucky Duck Show, before reclaiming its original moniker a few months later.
www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=3683   (495 words)

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